The Gardener's Arms was the pub directly opposite the market on the corner of Chiswick Roundabout, directly opposite the telephone exchange and the petrol station. I gather that when they built the Chiswick Flyover and extended the Roundabout in the late '50's they decided to demolish the boozer. Sadly, they realised too late that the land on which the Gardiner's Arms had stood was surplus to requirements and the empty space where the pub once was sited remains unused to this day.I think that the market moved in the early 1970's, but Sunday car-boot sales were held here until demolition in the early 1980's. In addition, a number of shop units remained occupied until shortly before the bulldozers moved in. On the western part of the site, roughly opposite the Kew Bridge Cafe, there was for many years a secondhand book and comic shop that I used to go to as a kid in the '70's. I seem to remember that this small parade of shops was crowned with a rather large glass-faced clock (which had clearly broken down years before and always told the wrong time!).Uncle Jim, do you have any old pictures of the market in your collection?
Cllr. Adrian Lee ● 6981d